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Pagina 20
... seemed moldering away our- selves , and growing defaced and cornerless , and liable at any moment to fall a prey to some antiquary and be patched in the legs , and " restored " with an un- seemly nose , and labeled wrong and dated wrong ...
... seemed moldering away our- selves , and growing defaced and cornerless , and liable at any moment to fall a prey to some antiquary and be patched in the legs , and " restored " with an un- seemly nose , and labeled wrong and dated wrong ...
Pagina 39
... seemed about eight hundred or one thousand feet high , and looked almost too straight - up - and - down for any man to climb , and certainly no mule could climb it with a man on his back . Four of these native pirates will carry you to ...
... seemed about eight hundred or one thousand feet high , and looked almost too straight - up - and - down for any man to climb , and certainly no mule could climb it with a man on his back . Four of these native pirates will carry you to ...
Pagina 53
... seemed to me- and I consoled myself for the coming death with the reflection : BEHOLD ! THE WORLD IS PASSING AWAY ! " · • After browsing among the stately ruins of Rome , of Baiæ , of Pompeii , and after glancing down the long marble ...
... seemed to me- and I consoled myself for the coming death with the reflection : BEHOLD ! THE WORLD IS PASSING AWAY ! " · • After browsing among the stately ruins of Rome , of Baiæ , of Pompeii , and after glancing down the long marble ...
Pagina 55
... seemed almost like years . There was no lack of cheerful- ness on board the Quaker City . For once , her title was a misnomer . At seven in the evening , with the western horizon all golden from the sunken sun , and specked with distant ...
... seemed almost like years . There was no lack of cheerful- ness on board the Quaker City . For once , her title was a misnomer . At seven in the evening , with the western horizon all golden from the sunken sun , and specked with distant ...
Pagina 56
... seemed to see him through a web of silver gauze . His torch was out ; his fires were smolder- ing ; a tall column of smoke that rose up and lost it- self in the growing moonlight was all the sign he gave that he was a living Autocrat of ...
... seemed to see him through a web of silver gauze . His torch was out ; his fires were smolder- ing ; a tall column of smoke that rose up and lost it- self in the growing moonlight was all the sign he gave that he was a living Autocrat of ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 238 - At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: At her feet he bowed, he fell: Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
Pagina 143 - Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
Pagina 179 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care. And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day. Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Pagina 317 - And there was a great famine in Samaria : and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Pagina 308 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.
Pagina 308 - And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not. And he came and touched the bier ; and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, arise ; and he that was dead sat up, and began to speak ; and he delivered him to his mother.
Pagina 236 - And when all these kings were met together, they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.
Pagina 69 - For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing. Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars...
Pagina 210 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean?
Pagina 238 - And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you : and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. 34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land ; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.